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The Merchant of Venice
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978-0-415-92999-8 (ISBN)
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This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play.
The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.
John Mahon is Professor of English at Iona College and Editor of the Shakespeare Newsletter. He received his PhD. in English from Columbia University. Ellen Mahin is Assistant Professor of English at Iona College. She attended NYU and received her PhD. in English from Fordham University.
Acknowledgments Contributors General Editor's Introduction Introduction, John W. Mahon and Ellen Macleod Mahon Shakespeare's Merchant and Marlowe's Other Play, Murray J. Levitch Jewish Daughters: The Question of Philo-Semitism in Elizabethan Drama, John Ozark Holmer Jessica, John Drakakis Textual Delivery in The Merchant of Venice, John F. Andrews Portia and the Ovidian Grotesque, John W. Velz Does Source-Criticism Illuminate the Problems of Interpreting The Merchant as a Soured Comedy? John K. Hale Shylock Is Content: A Study in Salvation, Hugh J. Short Isolation to Communion: A Reading of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Maryellen Keefe The Less into the Greater: Emblem, Analogue, and Deification in The Merchant of Venice, John Cunningham and Stephen Slimp "Nerissa Teaches Me What to Believe": Portia's Wifely Empowerment in The Merchant of Venice, Corrine S. Abate "Mislike Me Not for My Complexion": Whose Mislike? Shakespeare's? That of the Age? R. W. Desai The Merchant of Venice and the Politics of Commerce, Karoline Szatek Names in The Merchant of Venice, Grace Tiffany Singing Chords: Performing Shylock and Other Characters in The Merchant of Venice, Jay L. Halio Making The Merchant of Venice Palatable for U.S. Audiences, Gayle Gaskill Shylock in Performance, John O'Connor Portia Performs: Playing the Role in the Twentieth-Century English Theater, Penny Gay
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.9.2002 |
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Reihe/Serie | Shakespeare Criticism |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 748 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-92999-7 / 0415929997 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-92999-8 / 9780415929998 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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